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...some more tea?" The reply "I don't mind if I do" is definitely non-U, but "this was U about a century ago." The U speaker eats lunch in the middle of the day ("luncheon is old-fashioned U") and dinner at night. He never wears a dress-suit, and the "sentence 'Shall we wear evening dress?' would not be possible, the appropriate expression being 'Are we going to change?' "To answer the salutation "How d'you do?" with "Quite well, thank you" is as non-U as saying ill, mirror, notepaper, radio...
...trombone players who started the hot jazz cult which today has such heroes as Cab Galloway, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington. Galloway and Armstrong are predominantly showmen. Galloway plays no instrument, sings with his orchestra in a bleating, high-pitched voice, relies partly for his effects on his white dress-suit with ludicrously long tails. Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own. He is happy strutting before any good hot band where he can introduce himself as "The Reverend Satchel Mouth" and proceed to triple-tongue a cornet at incredible...
...Tweedle family on Murray Hill bursts the rampant spirit of twentieth century gaiety in the form of a renegade relative of the Tweedles, Worthington Smythe. He appears on the morning of the funeral of a great aunt, who has bequeathed him $1000,000, highly intoxicated, and in a crumpled dress-suit. To save this youth from the wrath of his aunts, the family lawyer, Appleway, of "Appleway, Appleway, and Plunket", uses the providential entrance of Wrigley to acquire a substitute for the disrectable Smythe at the funeral. Three weeks before, Amelia, the youngest of the Tweedles, shockingly sweet and innocent...
...with the undergraduate that the chief blame lies. By conceding only a routine interest to his courses he is playing his part in the vicious circle. When for the average student, concentration is largely confined to his hours at cards or in a dress-suit, it can hardly be said that the colleges are entirely to blame. The truth is that a considerable percentage of the undergraduates are not deeply concerned with the things of the mind art, literature and science...
...years, however, these concerts have not been fully up to our expectations. We are not, to be sure, too critical nor expecting dress-suit platform performances, but there has been notably a lack of concerts and little regularity in attendance which has caused unevenness on the parts and lack of spirit and inspiration in the music...